IGT 05/31 - National at Mets - They Call it a Streak!

[kcmets]

Kicking ass is fun!!

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, slow this game may be, but I imagine it's going even more slowly than that for Nats fans.

[Frayed Knot]

Chad ochoseis wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Well past the two hour mark and not yet thru 5 8 runs on 12 singles and 2 extra base hits will do that.

So will about 350 pitches from Corbin.

[nymr83]

Davis could have run harder to break up the non-DP there. yeah its 8-0, but we gotta make sure nobody slacks off here!

[nymr83]

Escobar is like "me? not hit? don't worry! laser beam!"

[Edgy MD]

Maybe tonight is the night we get to see Maikel Franco pitch.



I realize the level of competition is utterly different, but this is the team's hottest tear since the 2015 post-season.

[Edgy MD]

Sign him up!



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[Edgy MD]

Dee Strange-Gordon stealthily having himself a heckuva night.

[Edgy MD]

Getting his most over-worked players out of there when there's a big scoring differential doesn't seem to be a move in Showalter's playbook.

[Frayed Knot]

Tamp it down on the M-V-P chants in May, mm-Kay?

[Frayed Knot]

And now we know who the backup 1st baseman is: Mark Canha



118 games at 1B in his career, including 81 starts

[Edgy MD]

Nimmo, gets off the bench, Cahna makes his first base debut and the pitcher enters the batting order.



Surprises abound in the ninth!

[Fman99]

Mets friggin rule

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Unbearably hot when we arrived, then for about 5 minutes it was, "man this breeze feels great" before it went directly to freezing our asses off up there. The slow-moving game didn't help ... in addition to the challenges, and the 2 mound visits, etc, Corbin worked at a snails pace and the Mets kept getting hits. Ceetar showed up and we went looking for cocktails but I couldn't find them in the promenade.



They honored Santanas no-hitter with a pregame ceremony including Santana, a grey-haired Josh Thole and Terry. Johan Jr. a righty, threw a wild first pitch to Josh Thole Jr., who made a good lunge to get it.



Biggest Tuesday Night Mets win since a 12-2 victory over Toronto on May 15, 2018. That was better known as the Devin Mesoraco Game, as he was 2-2 with 3 walks, a Homer, a double, and 5 runs scored.



Not 4 nothing but Trevor Williams has been a pretty useful guy, and it was good to see Drew Smith back. Williams warms up to Even Flow by Pearl Jam.



Luis Castillo shut out the Red Sox for 6.



LOL on the challenge on Gillormes HBP

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[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: Sign him up! [media=youtube]DQpTl_BY_-w[/media]

St Francis Prep dad, presumably, as that was the group there tonight. They sang the anthem and had one of the 14 ceremonial first pitches.

[Ceetar]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Unbearably hot when we arrived, then for about 5 minutes it was, "man this breeze feels great" before it went directly to freezing our asses off up there. The slow-moving game didn't help ... in addition to the challenges, and the 2 mound visits, etc, Corbin worked at a snails pace and the Mets kept getting hits. Ceetar showed up and we went looking for cocktails but I couldn't find them in the promenade.

Then I slurred my way through the intro to the Podcast. That cocktail was a vodka distilled with strawberry and honeyberry, and then mixed with lemonade, so kinda radler-ish. Pretty good imo, better than hard seltzer anyway, though I do have a soft spot for lemonade. By DogfishHead. I couldn't quite suss out where all the cocktails were or weren't, but definitely CF, which was roughly as far from your seats as possible.



It looks like the ruling on the runner hit by the ball is simply "put out" credited to the nearest infielder. Assumption being, I guess, that he would've been able to make a play on him.



I grabbed some 'mac and cheese kegs' and snuck in to sit with my Aunt in 141 for the last few innings, then got some pizza cupcakes on my way out. I miss Citi Field, this being only my second game since late 2019. (and one concert which, meh)

[Frayed Knot]

It looks like the ruling on the runner hit by the ball is simply "put out" credited to the nearest infielder. Assumption being, I guess, that he would've been able to make a play on him.

Oh that's definitely the correct scoring play when a baserunner is struck. The question is whether that particular play was ruled correctly.

Gary was adamant that it wasn't on account of the batted ball having "passed" Pete prior to the runner being hit (and he was definitely drilled ... right in the chest).

I wasn't so sure and neither the umps nor the Nats seemed to raise a peep.



So theoretically a slapped ball towards the left-side hole hits a runner running on the pitch from 2nd while the 3Bman was playing in for a possible bunt. That ball

would certainly have to be past him when it hit the runner even though the 3rd sacker had zero chance to field it. Last night that ball was definitely past Pete who

dove for it but didn't come all that close to snagging it. I think the rule was created so as to not give credit to the defense after having whiffed on getting an out

by fielding the ball, though the rule book section Edgy came up with is somewhat ambiguous.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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